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Sample Assessment Data on Program SLO

AA Accounting

Assessment Plan

One section of this course was offered. In Fall 2012. The final payroll project was evaluated using the following criteria for rating. This payroll project included computation of gross payroll given an hourly wages, and hours worked (including overtime hours), as well as salaries. Deductions included OASDI and HI components of FICA, FUTA and SUTA employer taxes, Federal and State Income taxes, Employee Disability and City taxes, Insurance, Union Dues, and Charitable Contributions.

Wages and Salaries were allocated to various cost centers such as Administrative, Office, Sales, and Plant. Students were required to compute gross wages, appropriate deductions given basic information, and net pay. Payroll tax returns prepared included all applicable state, local, and federal forms (six forms in all), and the compound journal entries to record payroll taxes in the accounting records of the business.

Assessment Results

Thirty-five students completed this project. Students who did not complete this project were not able to pass the class, and the scores of students who did not complete the course are excluded. The following table summarizes the results. Table is attached.

Analysis and Plan for Improvement and Reassessment

Overall conclusion: Students are considered to have successfully achieved this outcome when their projects contain a reasonable number of independent errors. For each of the measured projects, the error rate should be no more than 5% of the total number of possible errors.

Students in the three course sections measured achieved this minimal error rate in 72.5% of the tested projects. This outcome is considered to be successfully completed.